smoking marijuana while pregnant?

This came up in my email as a hot topic post. I want to start off by saying I DO NOT use marijuana in any way but I thought this would be a very interesting topic to post. What is everyone's thought on smoking while pregnant? Any scientific reasons? This is not place where people against it need to jump down my throat because I do not do it. I personally feel as if a pregnant person did it very moderately it would not harm the baby though. I'm pretty neutral on the issue because in general I do not think weed is as bad for you as cigarettes or other drugs. Please stay semi nice with your responses. Happy posting!

Interestingly, most drugs that are pregnancy approved by doctors still have a pregnancy category rating of B or C (phenergan is still a C and given to preggos everyday). And it's because there will never be a definitive group of women to volunteer their fetuses for medical research, FOR ANY SUBSTANCE. You're never going to find a double-blind study of the effects of any drug, chemical, or substance on pregnant women. You have to take what info is out there: your Dr. advice, older people who have gone before you, research... And make your own decisions about what you put into your body and subject your fetus to. Because for most things, you will NEVER be able to say that a certain substance or action caused something to go wrong in your pregnancy and not a genetic predisposition (or God's will, if you believe so).
It reminds me of when people used to say that being gay or promiscuous was the only reason people got AIDS-they needed something to blame for a horrible occurrence and were ill-informed. Bad things happen to pregnancies every day without any chemicals or drugs involved.
When it comes to studies-ESPECIALLY controversial ones-there will never be unbiased sources. The government tries to control things, people are afraid to publish for fear of ridicule of not proving the status quo, people assume that open-mindedness to a subject skews judgement therefore making their study "biased"... There is a laundry list of factors that affect such things...

You and only you can decide what you feel is best for you and your baby. Personally, I refuse to believe that a sub sandwich is going to hurt me, and its what I crave right now, so I decide not to be stressed out by potential mean little germs that have a minuscule chance of actually being on my sandwich. I personally think that low-stress, happy mothers are the best environments for growing babies.

I suppose I should have said the USE of marijuana while pregnant because that is what I meant not only smoking it. I do believe if they COULD prove how horrible it was in general and during pregnancy they already WOULD have. Thanks everybody for posting and not getting overly mean while doing so. I was just curious on the thoughts and facts everyone had. I'm not going to extend this any more so I'm keeping the thoughts I have from the what 18 pages of comments I read to myself. Hope everyone had a great holiday!

My old high school best friend smoked weed and cigarettes her entire pregnancy. I won't go into details but her sweet daughter is now dead (died around two months old) and she's in jail. Drugs aren't ok. Ever! Pregnant or not! I have no idea why anyone would ever choose to put that shit in their bodies ESPECIALLY while pregnant. Anyone who thinks its ok needs to grow up and stop being so selfish. That's my opinion.